Re: The Taste (ABC Tuesday 8 P.M.)

Dvr'd the show but haven't made time to watch it yet. From reading the other comments, I don't know how I'm going to feel yet since I'm not a fan of the Voice. I do love my cooking competition shows though, so we shall see.

Re: The Taste (ABC Tuesday 8 P.M.)

I tuned in to this show because I love The Voice. I'm not sure if I'll come back next week, though. I'm really tired of seeing them reject people. I mean, why didn't they make it truly like The Voice and have the judges load up with chefs, and then eliminate some to get a final team? This business of only allowing them to pick their final team in the auditions virtually guarantees that the judges will be biased towards later contestants. That's so unfair towards all the perfectly good chefs who appear before then. And yeah, like others said, it got really old hearing the judges say, "Oh! I was so stupid for not picking you!" Uh, yes, you were.

Re: The Taste (ABC Tuesday 8 P.M.)

Not sure how I feel about this one. Way, way too many rejections, the show felt too long. Not sure on Ludo and on Malarkey (great name, though). I absolutely despise Bourdain, but I adore Nigella, I was happy whenever she encouraged contestants to be proud to say they're home cooks.

I remember Diane Dimeo, the woman who Bourdain chose for his team. She appeared in Chopped and won, then returned for the championship and got eliminated in round 2, due to completely forgetting to add one of the mandatory ingredients, made more ironic when the judges tasted her dish and considered it to be flawless, but she still left an ingredient out. She was fairly nice back then, but wow did she take a level in jerk, I really disliked her attitude here.

Re: The Taste (ABC Tuesday 8 P.M.)

Originally Posted by Rembrant

Not sure how I feel about this one. Way, way too many rejections, the show felt too long. Not sure on Ludo and on Malarkey (great name, though). I absolutely despise Bourdain, but I adore Nigella, I was happy whenever she encouraged contestants to be proud to say they're home cooks.

Thank you. I'm on the fence about Nigella, I like Malarkey and Ludo (especially the latter), but I can't stand Bourdain. I hated the way he dismissed that Jewish lady. "I'm sorry, I'm a traditionalist." I thought when you got to be a fancy-schmancy chef you were supposed to reject traditional food and come up with weird combinations? I thought that set you apart from the masses like us who just prefer good comfort food. And it was irritating to hear him dismiss her because of one ingredient. Earlier some judge, after picking the contestant, said something like, "That one ingredient was too strong, but we can work on that." And you can't, Bourdain? All of the judges are too nitpicky, but Bourdain comes across as the worst.

I admit I'm biased, though. I thought I had grown cynical about these shows, but they hooked me with the sob story of her about to get thrown out of her house. I felt so sorry for her to be summarily dismissed like that. OTOH, I do like that aspect of the show, where the judges don't know the contestants when they eat the food. I'm really glad talent shows are getting away from the AI "tell the judge a sob story and get through" model. Now I just wish they would stop doing that to the audience.

I used to live in England, and Nigella is everywhere there. She's kind of like the female Gordon Ramsay. Never heard of the other two, but I love Ludo's accent. (Don't tell my British husband, though. He would be shocked--shocked!--to hear me praise a Frenchman. )

I think I'll take a break and come back after the auditions. I'm getting too wound up by all this, but I still like the premise of the show.